May 19: Aisha Sasha John, Laura Goode & Kim Calder

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

AISHA SASHA JOHN
LAURA GOODE
& KIM CALDER
with video projections by
HARMONY HOLIDAY

Friday, May 19 2017

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer--a rhythm artist--and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Next month, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. This past February, Aisha led a public art performance residency at Union Station in Toronto: Let’s understand what it means to be here (together) (Art Metropole). aishasashajohn.tumblr.com

Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name (Fathom Books, 2016), and a novel for young adults, Sister Mischief (Candlewick Press, 2011). She wrote (with director Meera Menon) and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang; FGB premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her nonfiction has appeared in BuzzFeed, Longreads, ELLE, Refinery29, New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Magazine, Fusion, The Rumpus, and Bright Ideas, where she is a contributing editor. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and lives in San Francisco. http://www.lauragoode.com/ // @lauragoode // tinyletter.com/lauragoode

Kim Calder studies contemporary American literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Unsaid Literary Journal, The Volta, and Jacket2. She is currently working on a nonfiction manuscript entitled The Nervous System.